Though I applaud the millions of teachers and administrators who have given so much to the children of our nation, they have worked within a system that has constrained their efforts. Resnick's praise of public education is with great overreach. America has been in decline for several generations as our public system limits the moral, philosophic and even academic development of children under the constraints of secular philosophy and law. America has been in decline internally as human character declined and economically as debt continues to increase.It is time to re-think America's public education system - not just sentimentally praise it!